Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set

This SAM application monitor template contains metrics for monitoring Azure Virtual Machine, an on-demand, scalable computing resource. Some counters may require manual configuration, such as setting up installation-specific instances or correcting thresholds for your environment.

Microsoft AzureRM was deprecated on February 29, 2024. To use the Az module templates, uninstall the AzureRM module and install the Az module. To install the Azure Az module, refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-7.1.0.

Passwords for legacy Microsoft Azure application monitor templates and related application monitors are stored as plain text in the SolarWinds Platform database. SolarWinds recommends switching to Microsoft Azure API poller templates that leverage OAuth 2.0 authorization.”

Prerequisites

  • PowerShell modules (Az, Az.Accounts, Az.Resources) installed

  • Parameters for connecting to your Azure account

    • Subscription ID

    • Application ID

    • Tenant ID

    • Secret Key

  • Any Azure App (with its name and ID) having minimum role as Read Only

  • Virtual Machine name for which metrics are being calculated

  • PowerShell 5.1 or later

Credentials

  • Windows Administrator privileges on the target system
  • Login credential to access the Azure Portal, passed as script arguments per prerequisites (<SubscriptionID>, <TenantID>, <ApplicationID>, value=<Secret Key>, <Virtual Machine Name>, <ResourceGroupName>).
  • Optional parameters can be passed to script argument:
    • Time interval for which data has to be fetched (in hours).
    • Number of retries as the second last argument; the default is 3 retries.
    • WaitTime as the last argument; the default is 0.5 seconds.

Notes

Component monitors

Disk Read Bytes/Sec

This monitor provides the total bytes read from disk during monitoring period for the given Virtual machine via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: Bytes

Disk Read Operations/Sec

This monitor provides the average Disk Read Operations per sec for the given Virtual machine via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: CountPerSecond

Disk Write Bytes/Sec

This monitor provides the total bytes written to disk during monitoring period for the given Virtual Machine via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: Bytes

Disk Write Operations/Sec

This monitor provides the average Disk Write Operations per sec for the given Virtual machine via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: CountPerSecond

Network Incoming Traffic

This monitor provides the total number of bytes received on all network interfaces for the given Virtual Machine (Incoming Traffic) via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: Bytes

Network Outgoing Traffic

This monitor provides the total number of bytes out on all network interfaces by the given Virtual Machine (Outgoing Traffic).

Unit: Bytes

Percentage CPU

This monitor provides the average percentage of allocated compute units that are currently in use by the given Virtual Machine via PowerShell cmd-let.

Unit: Percent